This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and no..

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and no..

Performed in 1903, In the Shadow of the Glen was one of John Millington Synge's first works. It is ..

Pepys is perhaps the most famous diarist in the English language. His close observations and attent..

In his search for the meaning of temperance, Socrates engages Charmides in a dialogue. Socrates ref..

Plato relates Socrates's speeches to the Athenian court defending himself against charges that he in..

This three-act comedy by John Millington Synge focuses on a blind married couple, Martin and Mary, w..

The Golden Asse, written by Lucius Apuleius, influenced some of Shakespeare's works, notably A Midsu..

In Aristophanes' The Frogs, the great Greek tragedians have all died and Athens is desperate for the..

In The Clouds, by Aristophanes, Strepsiades is an unscrupulous farmer who has been financially ruine..

The play is set during the Peloponnesian War, after the military leaders of both sides have been kil..

Germania, published in 98 A.D., is Tacitus’s work on the various tribes located north of the Rhine a..

Crito visits Socrates in prison and tries to convince him to escape from prison and death, and go in..

Critias is an unfinished dialogue between Critias, Socrates, Timaeus, and Hermocrates. in which Crit..

This dialogue between Socrates and Cratylus on language and its relationship with reality is often c..

In the Annals, Tacitus provides a history of imperial Rome during the period from 14 A.D. to 66 A.D...